Franz Penzoldt (12 December 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a German internist and pharmacologist born in

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, Principality of Reuss-Greiz. He was the father of writer Ernst Penzoldt (1892–1955). He studied medicine in Tübingen and

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, where he was a student of

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(1842–1922). From 1874 until his retirement in 1920, he worked at the University of Erlangen. In 1875, he obtained his habilitation at Erlangen, where he later became a professor of internal medicine and

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. In 1903 he was appointed director of the medical clinic. He was the author of the popular ''Lehrbuch der klinischen Arzneibehandlung für Studierende und Ärzte'' (Textbook of Clinical Pharmaceutical Treatment for Students and Physicians), which was published over numerous editions. With

Roderich Stintzing Georg Hieronymus Roderich Stintzing (12 February 1854 – 5 April 1933) was a German internist born in Heidelberg. Stintzing studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Leipzig and Tübingen, receiving his doctorate in 1878 at Bonn. Following ...

(1854–1933), he published the ''Handbuch der gesamten Therapie'' and well as the ''Handbuch der speciellen Therapie innerer Krankheiten. Today the "Franz-Penzoldt-Zentrum" at the

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is named in his honor. This facility is the center for experimental medical research at the university.Uni-Protokelle-de
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Works

* ''Ältere und neuere Harnproben und ihr praktischer Werth : kurze Anleitung zur Harnuntersuchung in der Praxis für Ärzte und Studirende ; mit 2 Holzschnitten'' . Fischer, Jena 3rd ed. 189
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* ''Lehrbuch der klinischen Arzneibehandlung : für Studierende und Ärzte'' . Fischer, Jena 8th ed. 191
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References

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